The rise and fall of a match-fixing tennis prodigy

The gamblers behind this would have made much more than $1,000, and would have bet on other matches too, often making multiple bets on one match. "Having that insider knowledge of people involved in match-fixing in a specific sport particularly tennis… you can really make some fairly decent money," says Fred Lord, Director for Ant-Ccorruption at the International Centre of Sport Security in Qatar. "We're talking figures around about half a million euros."